Improvement in carriage-perch stays



,J. R. MCGUIRE. CARRIAGE PERCHI-STAY.

No 191,700. Patented June 5,1877.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRlAGE-PERCH STAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,700, dated J one 5, 1877; application filed June 5, 1876.

To all whom at may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. MCGUIRE, of Ansonia, inthe county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Carriage-Perch Stays; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken -in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, perspective view; Figs. 2 and 3, modification of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of attaching stay-ends to the perch of a carriage; and it consists in constructing the perch-plate and the stay-ends with a corresponding lug and bolt, whereby the stay-end is secured entirely to the perchplate without perforating the wood of the perch.

A is the perch-plate; B, the stay-end, of the usual form. Upon the under side of the stayond a lug, O, is formed, to extend down heside the perch-plate, and the perch-plate is formed with transverse bolts D, over which the lug (J (previously perforated) is set, and then the nut E screwed onto the end of the bolt D. Thus the stay-end is secured to the plate independent of the wood portion of the perch.

It preferred, the lug may be formed on the plate and the bolt on the stay-end, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, it only being essential to this invention that the means of connection be between the perch-plate and the stay-end, by means of a lug formed on the one and bolt on the other.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming securing the perch-stay to the perchplate Without making the connection through the wood portion of the perch, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I claim The herein -described improvement in attaching stay-ends to carriage-perch plates, consisting in forming the one with a perforated lug, O, and the other with a corresponding bolt, D. substantially as described, whereby the connection is made between the perchplate and the stay-end independent of the wood.

JOSEPH R. MCGUIRE. Witnesses:

E. BARTLETT, WALES TERRELL. 

